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Stephenson, Maxine – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
For 100 years a system of Native Schools operated in New Zealand, the principal objective of which was to support a state policy of assimilation. Decisions to disband the system were made in a context of social, economic and demographic change, and were rationalized as providing a positive step forward for Maori. Also influential was the growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders
CLARK, KENNETH; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, EDUCATORS, AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY MAKERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSED SCHOOL SEGREGATION ISSUES, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN THE NORTH AND WEST, TO PROVIDE SOME SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATION. THE FOLLOWING WERE AMONG THE PAPERS PRESENTED--(1) KENNETH CLARK "EFFECT OF SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION ON…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York, NY. – 1972
This paper focuses on the political nature of the present busing controversy. It is felt that the proposed moratorium on busing threatens gains which have been made in previous years through institutional and judicial enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in providing equal educational opportunities to all children. The advantages and disadvantages…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Classroom Desegregation
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Martin, Larry G. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Context is vitally important for urban adult education because it tends to create physical, psychological, and sociocultural distance between and among learners and various providers of adult and continuing education programs, thereby creating barriers and the differential provision of adult learning opportunities for some urban populations.
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Context Effect
Caliver, Ambrose – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
People in all walks of life have found it necessary to make adjustments to new occupational situations resulting from recent developments in science and technology. Although Negroes have shown exceptional capacity in the past to adopt the American social and economic order, they are finding it difficult to adjust themselves to the present modern…
Descriptors: Educational History, African American Education, Career Guidance, National Surveys